Noun
The sun is shining and there's not a cloud in the sky.
flying high above the clouds
It stopped raining and the sun poked through the clouds.
a cloud of cigarette smoke
The team has been under a cloud since its members were caught cheating.
There's a cloud of controversy hanging over the election. Verb
greed clouding the minds of men
These new ideas only cloud the issue further.
The final years of her life were clouded by illness.
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Noun
The debris appears as a large cloud of dirty water seen beyond the shoals off Montego Bay.—Avery Schmitz, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025 Microsoft also relinquished its cloud exclusivity with OpenAI, but still struck a deal that would see OpenAI buy $250 billion worth of Azure services incrementally.—Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 30 Oct. 2025
Verb
And as immigration raids escalated in the spring of this year, fear began to cloud simple outings like family trips to the park.—Faith Karimi, CNN Money, 18 Oct. 2025 Gone is the cynicism that clouded the Biden era.—Faisal J. Abbas, semafor.com, 16 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for cloud
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Etymology
Noun
Middle English, rock, cloud, from Old English clūd; perhaps akin to Greek gloutos buttock
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